Head of Engineering

At Kriptomat, we’re driven by a simple yet powerful belief: everyone deserves the chance to grow their wealth and unlock new opportunities in life. Since 2018, we’ve been passionate about making crypto simple, accessible, and secure for everyone—whether you’re a first-time investor or a seasoned enthusiast.

We’re obsessed with our customers — everything we build starts with their needs and ends with their success. We move fast, take ownership, and get things done. We hold ourselves to high standards, give honest feedback, and always speak the truth, even when it’s hard. We’re endlessly curious — learning, experimenting, and improving a little every day. 

Now we’re looking for a Head of Engineering who shares this mindset — someone who turns insights into action, drives clarity through complexity, and builds products that make crypto accessible to everyone.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead and grow the engineering organization, ensuring teams deliver high-quality features and products on time.

• Establish and maintain strong engineering execution practices, including planning, delivery, QA, testing, and release processes.

• Drive continuous improvement of engineering workflows, developer experience, and efficiency.

• Grow and mentor engineering team, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and learning.

• Partner with Product leadership to align engineering capacity with roadmap priorities, manage dependencies, and plan releases.

• Oversee system architecture at a high level, ensuring the right long-term technical decisions are made without becoming a bottleneck.

• Ensure consistent engineering quality: code reviews, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, documentation, and reliability standards.

• Supervise QA processes and promote automation to ensure product quality and delivery speed.

• Support engineering KPIs (velocity, cycle time, quality indicators) to track and improve team performance.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, IT, Security, and Business teams to ensure engineering supports company goals.

• Encourage adoption of AI-powered developer tools to accelerate delivery, automate workflows, and improve engineering productivity.

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years in engineering leadership (managing teams).

• Proven experience leading engineering in a fast-growing technology company.

• Strong background in software development, QA practices, and modern SDLC processes.

• Experience building and scaling engineering teams, structuring squads, and hiring technical talent.

• Solid understanding of modern backend/frontend development and architectural principles.

• Familiarity with DevOps and cloud infrastructure at a strategic level (not hands-on).

• Experience improving engineering processes, quality, and delivery at scale.

• Clear communication skills, ability to simplify complex decisions, and leadership experience in cross-functional environments.

• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Location:

• Hybrid location for candidates from Ljubljana, Slovenia or Zagreb, Croatia.

Why Join Kriptomat?

• Work in an innovative and fast-growing fintech company at the forefront of crypto compliance

• Be part of a mission-driven team shaping the future of finance and financial accessibility

• Career growth opportunities, with continuous learning and professional development

• Collaborate with industry experts in a dynamic and forward-thinking ecosystem

• Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge compliance technology and regulatory frameworks

• Make a real impact in a rapidly evolving industry with opportunities to influence policies and strategies

• Join a diverse, international, and supportive team working towards a common goal

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